%A Xu Yuemei,Lv Sining,Cai Lianqiao,Zhang Xiaoya %T Analyzing News Topic Evolution with Convolutional Neural Networks and Topic2Vec %0 Journal Article %D 2018 %J Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery %R 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2018.0068 %P 31-41 %V 2 %N 9 %U {https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/CN/abstract/article_4549.shtml} %8 2018-09-25 %X

[Objective] This study analyzes the evolution of news topics, aiming to identify the public opinion and media coverage of certain events. [Methods] We proposed a word distributed representation method based on Topic2Vec to improve the semantic distance of topics. Then, we introduced the convolutional neural networks model to learn the topic vectors and cluster the similar ones. Finally, we obtained the topics’ evolution trends, focus events and related key sub-topics. [Results] We collected news reports on China from the website of CNN between 2015 and 2017 as datasets to examine the proposed method, which effectively revealed the evolution of topics and sentiments. [Limitations] We did not explore the impacts of time window length. [Conclusions] Compared with previous models, the proposed method improves the accuracy of topic clustering by 10% and helps us explore the topic evolution of news.